Bod-Inc: L-153
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Epitaph of Lucan.] Incipit: ‘Corduba me genuit, rapuit Nero, praelia dixi | Quae gessere pares hinc socer, inde gener'; 2 elegiac distichs. See L‑150.
A1r Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia. Luc.
P4r [Colophon.]
P4r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Si generi socerique cupis cognoscere bella | Non alium quaeras hic manifesta facit'; 6 elegiac distichs. see Walther, Initia, 17744.
P4v [Laetus, Julius] Pomponius: ‘M. Annei Lucani vita.’ Incipit: ‘[M]. Anneus Seneca e Corduba ciuitate Bethycae Romam uenit statimque . . .’
P5v Tacitus, [Publius Cornelius: Note based on Tac., Ann. 15.48-9.] ‘Apud Cornelium Tacitum legitur.’ Incipit: ‘Consulibus Silio Nerua et Attico Vuestino coniurationem in Neronem ceptam . . .’ see also L‑094.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Philippus de Lavagnia, 24 Feb. 1477. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A10 B–I k L–O8 P6.
References
ISTC: il00295000
Hain: HCR 10232;
Goff: Goff L‑295;
BMC: BMC VI 704;
Proctor: Pr 5854;
Others: CIBN L‑230; Sheppard 4815.
LCN: 14504354
Copies
Copy number: L-153(1)
Binding: Quarter gold-tooled mottled calf, with pasteboards covered in Buntpapier.
Size: 278 × 197 × 26 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 182 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear annotations, including comments on the text; also corrections to the text.
Provenance unknown. Purchased in Florence via D. A. Talboys, Oxford, for £5. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 15, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 446.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.21.
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